CDP(Cisco Discovery Protocol) Tutorial

Posted: 31 May 2015 in CCNA
Tags: cdp, cdp ccna, cdp in ccna, cdp notes

CDP stands for Cisco Discovery Protocol Designed by Cisco Company to help the network administartors.Using CDP admins used to collect information about both locally attached devices and remote devices.Today here in this this article we learn how to turn on or turn off cdp advertisement on routers as well as see the information of directly and indirectly connected devices.We will also learn how to see ios version of neighbor routers and directly connected routers.CDP also helps us to see the status of router interface or switch ports.To understand CDP i have designed a topology diagram in cisco packet tracer.As you can see below i have taken 5 router R1 R2 R3 R4 and R5 in below topology diagram.

First Design the above topology diagram and then assign ip address on each interface of routers.

Configuration on Router R1:

Router>enable
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R1
R1(config)#int se0/0/0
R1(config-if)#ip address 1.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
R1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R1(config-if)#no shut

R1(config-if)#exit

R1(config)#int se0/1/0

R1(config-if)#ip address 2.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
R1(config-if)#no shut

R1(config-if)#exit
R1(config)#int se0/0/1
R1(config-if)#ip address 3.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
R1(config-if)#no shut
R1(config-if)#exit
R1(config)#int se0/1/1
R1(config-if)#ip address 4.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
R1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R1(config-if)#no shut

Configuration on Router R2:

Router>enable
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R2
R2(config)#int se0/0/0
R2(config-if)#ip address 1.0.0.2 255.0.0.0
R2(config-if)#no shut

Configuration on Router R3:

Router>enable
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R3
R3(config)#int se0/0/0
R3(config-if)#ip address 4.0.0.2 255.0.0.0
R3(config-if)#no shut

Configuration on Router R4:

Router>enable
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R4
R4(config)#int se0/0/0
R4(config-if)#ip address 2.0.0.2 255.0.0.0
R4(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R4(config-if)#no shut

Configuration on Router R5:

Router>enable

Router#config t

Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R5
R5(config)#int se0/0/0
R5(config-if)#ip address 3.0.0.2 255.0.0.0
R5(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R5(config-if)#no shut

HOW TO SEE CDP GLOBAL PARAMETERS?

R1#show cdp
Global CDP information:
Sending CDP packets every 60 seconds
Sending a holdtime value of 180 seconds
Sending CDPv2 advertisements is enabled

Explanation:CDP TIMERS and CDP HOLDTIME are two CDP Global Parameters.

CDP TIMER:is how often CDP Packets are transmitted out all active interfaces.

CDP HOLDTIME:is the amount of time the device will hold the packets received from neighbor devices.

How to view or see the information of directly connected devices?

R1#show cdp nei
Capability Codes: R – Router, T – Trans Bridge, B – Source Route Bridge
S – Switch, H – Host, I – IGMP, r – Repeater, P – Phone
Device ID Local Intrfce Holdtme Capability Platform Port ID
R2 Ser 0/0/0 167 R C1841 Ser 0/0/0
R3 Ser 0/1/1 151 R C1841 Ser 0/0/0
R4 Ser 0/1/0 131 R C1841 Ser 0/0/0
R5 Ser 0/0/1 138 R C1841 Ser 0/0/0

How to see information of neighbor routers in detail?

R1#show cdp neighbors detail

Device ID: R2
Entry address(es):
IP address : 1.0.0.2
Platform: cisco C1841, Capabilities: Router
Interface: Serial0/0/0, Port ID (outgoing port): Serial0/0/0
Holdtime: 123

Version :
Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(15)T1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
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Compiled Wed 18-Jul-07 04:52 by pt_team